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The Man
- Dec 6, 2009
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I was waiting for the "but BOOOSSSSHHHHH" whining and right on cue here it is.
No, sorry. BUsh never did this. Yes, he lobbied for votes one way or another. That is politics. Every president does that.
But every president does not promise political appointments for retiring COngressmen in exchange for voting for his pet project.
That is bribery.
That is unacceptable.
Yes, if Bush had done that the Libs would be screaming. Hell, if the GOP had done half of what the Dums are doing now there would be serious moves at impeachment and ethics investigations.
because youre a partisan hackjob, rabbi, and you routinely massage bush's nuts, of course you are totally oblivious to the bipartisan trend toward corruptibility.
how do you reconcile your position that bush wont offer political appointments for influence with bob nardelli's wham-bam-thankyou-ma'am? he was a blatant supporter of the bush administration, was gifted an appointment to some cabinet council of bush's. jumped into the big chair at chrysler, and secured a $4,000,000,000 GRANT from the bush's government.
he's retired like bush, now. yachts and pina coladas.
Bob Nardelli was a Congressman?? News to me.
You are so tired with your moral equivalence it makes me want to puke. Here is Obama engaging in blatant bribery which is unpredecented, except by Warren Harding, and all you can do is point a crooked finger at something completely different and declare they are exactly the same.
EIther you have no power to detect differences whatsoever, so a radish is basically the same as a tractor, or else your willful hackery is making a liar out of you.
blatant would be offering a reward in explicit exchange for performance. how are you with nuance? i recall a $100k cash offer controversy over the republican's prescription bill, however, bush wasnt directly involved, if at all. indications are the man didnt give a shit about congress, exercising the veto a handful of times and accomplishing only inept tax policy and inane warmongering through the system.
bush was a specialist private-sector crony, and where $4billion giveaways are more valuable than some judgeship, i see more than parity. obama has got to do better than this to live up to your hero in the cronyism game.
balls on your chin as his are, you'll even make a fool of yourself to protect your bush.